and a desert all around

Periodically through this journal I’ve voiced a complaint that many of our RS days were overfilled (or at least I’ve complained in my mind) and, although our day in Alice Springs (Mparntwe in the local Arrernte Language {pronounced M’bun-twa and …

Your suspense is nearly ended

I ended the previous post leaving you, the reader, waiting for something astonishing. It was this: Shortly after supper but before the train had chugged its way back to Darwin (Yes, I know, trains don’t actually chug anymore but chugging …

and they were prophetic

We were up and at ’em Wednesday morning – in the lobby by 07:00, on the bus at 07:10, and at the Darwin Convention Centre for check-in and a light breakfast  prior to boarding The Ghan for our scheduled trip …